sisters in arms from the unification to the twentieth century
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Amatangelo, Susan
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- Z EUR 6 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- oorlog en vrede, terrorisme, fascisme, Italië, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book offers diverse perspectives on Italian women’s participation in war and conflict throughout Italy’s modern history. The book focuses on heroines who fought for Italy’s Unification. It considers exceptional individuals, such as Eva Kühn Amendola, who combatted both with her body and her pen, as well as collective female efforts during the world wars, whether military or civilian. In part three, where the context is twentieth-century society, the focus shifts to those women engaged in less conventional conflicts who resorted to different forms of revolt, including active non-violence